Holland Estate

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The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1757 [EA] - 1758 [LA] → Attorney

Under the care and direction of John Morse. Inferred to be the same man as the slave-owner of the 1770s.

1785 [EA] - 1792 [LA] → Owner
1793 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Owner
1808 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Previous owner
1815 [EA] - 1827 [EY] → Owner
1827 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£3,070 4S 9D

Estate Information (37)

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1757
[Name] Holland Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, fustick  
 

Property of Wastel Briscoe Esquire, under the care and direction of John Morse Esquire. Account filed by John Forbes, overseer.

NB Wastel Bricoe was shown in 1762 and onwards as the owner of Holland estate in St Elizabeth: there is possible confusion here.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 48
1758
[Name] Holland Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, molasses, rental of enslaved people  
 

Property of Wastel Briscoe Esquire, under the care and direction of John Morse Esquire. Account filed by John Forbes, overseer.

NB Wastel Bricoe was shown in 1762 and onwards as the owner of Holland estate in St Elizabeth: there is possible confusion here.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 85
1759
[Name] Holland Plantation  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle, rental of enslaved people  
 

Property of the heirs of Bernard Andreas Woodstock deceased. Acount filed by John Forbes, overseer. NB Wastel Briscoe, who was attorney of Bernard Andreas Woodstock, was shown in 1762 and onwards as the owner of Holland estate in St Elizabeth: there is possible confusion here.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/3 139
1781
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Wastel Briscoe Esquire, Peter Campbell his attorney. Account filed by Robert Glasgow overseer.

NB Wastel Bricoe was shown in 1762 and onwards as the owner of Holland estate in St Elizabeth: there is possible confusion here.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 96-97
1785
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum,  
 

Property of Henry Curniffe Esquire under the direction of John Wedderburn & James Wedderburn Esquires, attorneys. Account filed by John Patten, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/10 204
1787
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, cattle  
 

Property of Henry Cunliffe Esq, under the direction of John and James Wedderburn; account filed by John Durning, overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/12 217
1787
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum, hire of enslaved people  
 

The property of Henry Cunliffe Esq under the direction of John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn Esqs; account filed by John Durning as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/14 47
1788
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Henry Cuniffe Esquire under the care and direction of John Wedderburn and James Wedderburn Esquires. Account filed by John Durning as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/15 176-177 f.89
1789
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Henry Cuniffe Esquire under the direction of James Wedderburn. Account filed by John Durning as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/16 202-203 f.102
1790
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Henry Cuniffe Esquire under the direction of James Wedderburn Esquire. Account filed by John Durning as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/17 227 [f.114]
1791
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Henry Cuniffe Esquire under the direction of James Wedderburn Esquire. Account filed by John Durning as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/18 112-113 [f.51]
1792
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of Henry Cuniffe Esquire under the direction of John Wedderburn Esquire. Account signed by Jno Dunning. Accounts filed for 31/12/1791 to 01/08/1792.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 1-2
1793
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

The property of John Lewis [=Sims?] Esquire under the direction of James Wederburn Esquire. Account filed by James McLean as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/19 318-319 [f.160]
1794
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Property of the John Sims Esq under the direction of James Wedderburn and Charles James Sims Esq.s until 01/09/1794, when said James Wedderburn resigned his charge to said Charles Sims. Account filed by James McLean as overseer for the period 01/09/1793 to 01/09/1794.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/20 131
1798
[Name] Holland Estate  
[Crop] sugar, rum  
 

Account filed by Robert Douglass for the period 31/12/1797 to 31/12/1798.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/24 214
1799
[Name] Holland  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Plotted In Trelawney as a sugar estate with a cattle mill and a windmill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.

 
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
1808
[Name] Holland  
[Crop] sugar, rum and livestock  
 

Belonging to the heirs of James Lyon Esq. deceased. Account filed by Patrick English as overseer.

 
Accounts Produce, Jamaica Archives 1B/11/4/38 156 -157
1809
[Number of enslaved people] 390(Tot)  
[Name] Barnstaple etc.  
[Stock] 408  
 

Registered to James Lyon. Assumed to be both Barnstaple and Holland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Trel.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1809, hence the earlier evolution date.
1811
[Number of enslaved people] 388(Tot)  
[Name] Barnstaple etc.  
[Stock] 146  
 

Registered to James Lyon. Assumed to be both Barnstaple and Holland.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 185(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 161  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 154  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot) 96(F) 94(M)  
[Name] Holland Estate  
 

In the possession of David Richards as Attorney to David Lyon Esquire.

 
T71/228 1939-1946
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 12  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Holland Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as Attorney to David Lyon Esquire.

 
T71/231 [unpaginated]
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 111  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Holland Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as attorney to David Lyon Esquire Proprietor.

 
T71/233 [Unpaginated]
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al20.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 122  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al13.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 164(Tot)  
[Name] Holland Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller & Robert H Scott as Attornies to David Lyon Esquire the Owner.

 
T71/235 [unpaginated]
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 114  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al19.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 162(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 124  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Holland Estate  
 

In the possession of William Miller as Attorney of David Lyon Esquire.

 
T71/238 [unpaginated]
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 35  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 119  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Holland  
[Stock] 2  
 

Registered to David Lyon.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Trel.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] Holland Estate  
 

In the possession of William Reeves as Attorney to David Lyon the owner.

 
T71/242 212